UPDATED: Yale Appliance and Lighting Coming to Framingham

Yale Appliance and Lighting plans to open its second store in Framingham on Route 9 in June.

After 92 years as a business, the company has decided to open its new store in the former Salvation Army thift store and Pier 1 Imports location.

“I have always been anti expansion and focused on remodeling Dorchester almost daily for 29 years. Dorchester has attracted people from all over New England. However, a store in Burlington, New Hampshire or Framingham would be more convenient to our customers. Second stores also add logistical and financial issues as does another key factor - more people, ” wrote Steve Sheinkopf, CEO at Yale Appliance and Lighting. in his blog.

“In the end, I really made the decision because I would have regretted not expanding in the future. In terms of the area, the Wellesley, Natick and Framingham area has always been interesting to me because I grew up in Needham,” wrote Sheinkopf. ”I spent my childhood going to the Natick Mall. I actually remember when there was an outside mall and going to the Natick movie cinemas, eating at The Tacomaker as well as playing pinball at Fun and Games. ... For me, its home.”

The CEO said the Framingham store may be better that the Dorchester store as it will ”be starting from a blank slate on one floor with no stairs unlike our current store.”

He said the Framingham store will also have a “lot of interactive displays.”

Yale Appliance and Lighting was voted on of the best places to work in 2014 by The Boston Globe. It was also voted Best of Boston Home in 2014 by Boston Magazine.

Yale states it has the largest independent appliance service & delivery team in Massachusetts.